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Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 471
I'm from Australia. Could you tell? Wombats are my favourite animals. There is a series of kids books about wombats that I adored reading to my chn.
They are herbivorous marsupials, burrow, are strong and stocky, and look hilarious when they squeal and run. Unlike me, although im not a very graceful runner!
The ones in captivity love a good belly scratch. I knew a lady who knew a lady who did wildlife care and kept them in a corrugated iron pen in her living room. We visited them and took them carrots and oats (like they ate in the book).
straight 'wombat' was taken. The 'icus'? Cant really remember. But Aussies are always shortening long words and lengthening short words.
They are herbivorous marsupials, burrow, are strong and stocky, and look hilarious when they squeal and run. Unlike me, although im not a very graceful runner!
The ones in captivity love a good belly scratch. I knew a lady who knew a lady who did wildlife care and kept them in a corrugated iron pen in her living room. We visited them and took them carrots and oats (like they ate in the book).
straight 'wombat' was taken. The 'icus'? Cant really remember. But Aussies are always shortening long words and lengthening short words.
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 471
Originally Posted by AnvilheadII 
mine's pretty straightforward.....i have a head harder than cement, thus ANVIL. some say i have just about as much finesse..........LOL
You bring a different perspective. Stops me wallowing when i read your responses to others.
I think about the roadrunner cartoons when I think of anvils. Lol
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 141
Ummmm......
Let's see.......��
My first post was about my alcoholic sister.
By the way,
(I'm the Sister of that Sister)........
I was so upset and confused, that I didn't even think about using another username.
Just needed advice and help. And it came. And I happily took it.
Thanks, Sober Recovery!
Let's see.......��
My first post was about my alcoholic sister.
By the way,
(I'm the Sister of that Sister)........
I was so upset and confused, that I didn't even think about using another username.
Just needed advice and help. And it came. And I happily took it.
Thanks, Sober Recovery!
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Virginia
Posts: 134
MyGirlGracie was a name that popped up when I registered because "Gracie" was my only source of comfort when I was lost and confused. Gracie was my beautiful Dobermann who passed away the next year in 2012. I am still grieving her, but smile every time I log in here as I carry her memory in my heart. Also, the photo with my screen name is a Crape Myrtle that she used to love to relax under in the shade so, I get two smiles in one!
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Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 223
It’s a Pixies song from my youth about a slightly nutbag lady digging in a hole on the side of the road, gleefully trying to accomplish something absurd. It is both inspiring and maybe futile. Like so much we strive for, at varying moments. 
To me it’s trying to achieve something while not being too serious about myself.
To me it’s trying to achieve something while not being too serious about myself. Member
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 36
Our first home was built in 1755 and made of brick and fieldstone. It had a huge barn and was on six acres. We were young and didn't know what to do with all that land, so we contacted the local 4H club and we soon had neighbor's young people using the property to raise chickens, two pygmy goats, and seven sheep (and spring lambs a few times when the ram came for a visit). Sheep graze the land and keep the grass clipped but goats are very destructive! All those kids worked so hard with their animals! It was a delight and we really benefited -- fresh eggs and a picturesque view. We had many barn cats as well. It was a great experience. We let a local farm have visitors park on the front of the property during a festival they had every year and someone passing by asked us how we liked being sheepherders! We laughed so hard. Mr and Mrs Sheepherder indeed! Hardly. If they only knew. It was one of the best times of our life. I miss it.
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Wareham, Mass
Posts: 7,067
Hey, Glenjo.
I was getting my teaching degree and cert.
I used to hit tennis balls on the backstop during my lunch break on nice days, and that was when I first noticed Maud.
She was hunting.
I was friendly with the lawn maintenance guys, and they told me that she had been hanging around and sometimes they gave her meat from their sandwiches. They were good guys.
So I started feeding her, and the friendship began.
I was getting my teaching degree and cert.
I used to hit tennis balls on the backstop during my lunch break on nice days, and that was when I first noticed Maud.
She was hunting.
I was friendly with the lawn maintenance guys, and they told me that she had been hanging around and sometimes they gave her meat from their sandwiches. They were good guys.
So I started feeding her, and the friendship began.
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 356
Mine was totally random, it is movie and I’m not even sure I have ever seen it. It also is spelled wrong which was not on purpose, guess it didn’t catch that w when I registered. I mostly needed something totally random because I was worried that my now ex would be on here as well. He read a couple of my posts on a forum that I have been on for years (he knew I was on that one) and that has a lot of different themes one of which was recovery and that is where I had posted when everything went to hell 3 years ago. I figured there was good chance he’d find this one as he might be looking for support himself. Anyway, long story shot, absolutely no significance for me whatsoever, it just randomly popped up in my head
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 534
Same for me, Sleepyhollo. I picked a random word so nobody would figure out who I was. Several other people had told me about this site so I wanted some anonymity. I THINK I looked at the huge pile of books I always have on my nightstand and used an author's last name.
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Join Date: Jul 2018
Posts: 1,355
Originally Posted by Maudcat
Hey, Glenjo.
I was getting my teaching degree and cert.
I used to hit tennis balls on the backstop during my lunch break on nice days, and that was when I first noticed Maud.
She was hunting.
I was friendly with the lawn maintenance guys, and they told me that she had been hanging around and sometimes they gave her meat from their sandwiches. They were good guys.
So I started feeding her, and the friendship began.
I was getting my teaching degree and cert.
I used to hit tennis balls on the backstop during my lunch break on nice days, and that was when I first noticed Maud.
She was hunting.
I was friendly with the lawn maintenance guys, and they told me that she had been hanging around and sometimes they gave her meat from their sandwiches. They were good guys.
So I started feeding her, and the friendship began.
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Posts: 28,752
My first username, when I joined SR in '16 was 'Icarus'. Carefully chosen- about a guy who builds stupid waxwings, does not listen to warnings and flies too close to the sun- his wings melt and he fell to earth.
Considering I had a downfall with getting badly burned- it seemed apt.
BUT- folks here advised me I had changed over time, as my words apparently showed and it was suggested Phoenix- rising from the ashes, stronger, always seeking rebirth....so with some irony, I took the name. I am fond of it now. I know others who have had their sobriety date tattooed on their body, or wear a necklace with some symbolic meaning...I bought a fancy watch and had 'PhoenixJ' inscribed on the back...also did the below art...
Considering I had a downfall with getting badly burned- it seemed apt.
BUT- folks here advised me I had changed over time, as my words apparently showed and it was suggested Phoenix- rising from the ashes, stronger, always seeking rebirth....so with some irony, I took the name. I am fond of it now. I know others who have had their sobriety date tattooed on their body, or wear a necklace with some symbolic meaning...I bought a fancy watch and had 'PhoenixJ' inscribed on the back...also did the below art...
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